1984

[bertine]

[Poll #1205050]

Comments

[saladbar.livejournal.com]

But to be honest, it was so long ago I don't remember too much.

[bertine.livejournal.com]

It is good. I am surprised how much I think about it.

[seattleforge.livejournal.com]

I love Orwell.

[bertine.livejournal.com]

Me too!

[sterlingphoenix.livejournal.com]

like many of Orwell's books, its totally worth it for the last line.

Which they changed in the movie.

Have you read it?

[bertine.livejournal.com]

But the last line doesn't mean anythign without the whole book.

Of course I have. I started with A and went through the whole library at my highschool when I was there.

[sterlingphoenix.livejournal.com]

Yeah, but the last line kinda makes the book. Same with Animal Farm.

Did you see the movie? They changed the last line and made the whole story completely totally 100% different.

[bertine.livejournal.com]

Nope, I never saw the movie and now I am happy I didn't.

[sterlingphoenix.livejournal.com]

Want me to tell you what it was? (:

[avecvu.livejournal.com]

It is my favorite book. And my birth year.

[avecvu.livejournal.com]

Oh no wait, my favorite book is Catch-22. And The Omnivore's Dilemma. And In Cold Blood. (I have a lot of favorite books.)

[purplesquirrel.livejournal.com]

I'm almost done re-reading Catch-22. I first read it in HS but obviously didn't get all of its subtle humor.

[bertine.livejournal.com]

I need to re-read catch-22. I think it would be better now.

[avecvu.livejournal.com]

Milo has been reading it for the past year.

[bertine.livejournal.com]

I am a little faster than that. When I was in Korea I brought ten books and I had to stop reading them and save them for the flight home because I refused to pay so much for English language books.

[avecvu.livejournal.com]

He's faster than that too, but he's been trying to finish residency and when he goes on his vacations to Finland, he's generally spending most of his time playing with his kid, so by the time he gets to bed, he wants to sleep and who can blame him? Kids are hard!

But seriously, I love that book so much.

[bertine.livejournal.com]

I am sure it is crazy. I remember when I was in grad school I missed reading for fun SO MUCH.

[melissa-maples.livejournal.com]

Isn't it required reading in US schools? It was in mine.

[bertine.livejournal.com]

I was never required to read it. I read it over the summer in Juinor High because it was on a suggested summer reading list. Sometimes I am a little shocked at the books I wasn't required to read (and the ones I was).

[adrianne.livejournal.com]

I was never required to read it either and when I graduated from high school I made it my mission to read all the books I was "supposed" to read at some point but never did. Thus, my reading of 1984.

[bertine.livejournal.com]

They should require books like this.

[absenthine.livejournal.com]

It is required reading in many Kansas schools. I liked Animal Farm a little better, though. :-(

[bertine.livejournal.com]

Yeah, my school didn't require it. I was just thinking about how often I think about that book. I did like it better than Animal Farm.

[saladbar.livejournal.com]

This must be true for me too. I remember Animal Farm almost to the letter.

I was just a wee teenager though, and did not yet appreciate the books that were required for me.

[rachel-bartlett.livejournal.com]

It was the first English novel I read -- I still have the copy. For the first few pages, I had to look up every other word or so, and I wrote the translations down on the margins. But then, there were less and less words I had to look up, and I learnt "to walk in English".

[bertine.livejournal.com]

♥ That is a good book to read in English.

[purplesquirrel.livejournal.com]

That novel is doubleplusgood!

[bertine.livejournal.com]

AGREED!

[patrickwonders.livejournal.com]

Twice, which puts it in a very small category. The only novel I have read more often is Animal Farm.

[bertine.livejournal.com]

You don't re-read books? I love re-reading them years later, they are so different because I am different.

[patrickwonders.livejournal.com]

I used to hate reading fiction. Now, I am way behind. There's not enough time for re-reading. And, there aren't any books from 15+ years ago that I really want to even think of. I do want to re-read I Robot, and I have re-read Farenheit 451 but want to do so again.

[bertine.livejournal.com]

Ah. That I can understand. I have never hated fiction but I understand why.

Both of those books are good to re-read. Another one I love to reread every couple of years is Ender's Game because I read that when I was a teenager. Lately I am re-reading Kurt Vonnegut, who the older I get the better his writing is.